The electoral returns of party-sponsored citizen legislative initiatives
The Journal of Politics, 2024
Mihail Chiru, Aurelian Giugal, Giorgian Gutoiu & George Secareanu
correspondence: mihail.chiru@politics.ox.ac.uk 
Last updated: January 2024
Stata Version 17.0
ArcGIS 10.2 for Desktop
Operating System: Micrsoft Windows 11 Home

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Codebook electoral returns.pdf *Document including the names and description of all the variables used in the analyses.
do file electoral returns.do *Syntax to replicate analyses in main text and appendix
electoral returns.dta *Original data on the citizen intitiative, electoral results and party branches at locality level
European citizen initiatives.dta *Data on party-sponsored citizen initiatives in Europe that have resulted in referendums (1990-2022)
ESS9ROe01.dta *Data file for the Romanian survey, part of the 9th round of the European Social Survey
map replication instructions.pdf *Document including instructions needed to replicate the 3 cartograms of the article using ArcGIS
bdsend *folder including 3 ArcGIS projects (dezveuroLHDT4.mxd, DISTRIBfilialeUSR.mxd, farapenali5.mxd) and the folder 'db' with the shapefiles needed to replicate the 3 cartograms in the article

Shapefiles
Bnoua.dbf, Bnoua.prj, Bnoua.sbn, Bnoua.sbx, Bnoua.shp, Bnoua.shx *shapefiles with boundaries of basic administrative units and information on citizens signing the legislative initiative
bucurestiDiss.dbf, bucurestiDiss.prj, bucurestiDiss.sbn, bucurestiDiss.sbx, bucurestiDiss.shp, bucurestiDiss.shx *shapefiles with boundaries of Bucharest and information about share of citizens signing the initiative and human development score of the city.
CNTR_RG_03M_2016_3035.cpg, CNTR_RG_03M_2016_3035.dbf, CNTR_RG_03M_2016_3035.prj, CNTR_RG_03M_2016_3035.shp, CNTR_RG_03M_2016_3035.shx *shapefiles with Romania's and neighbouring countries' borders
dezvEuroparlamentare.dbf, dezvEuroparlamentare.prj, dezvEuroparlamentare.sbn, dezvEuroparlamentare.sbx, dezvEuroparlamentare.shp, dezvEuroparlamentare.shx *shapefiles information on USR party branches and the human development levels of the localities
loc250k.dbf loc250k.prj, loc250k.sbn, loc250k.sbx, loc250k.shp, loc250k.shx *shapefiles for major cities 
Romania_jud.dbf Romania_jud.prj, Romania_jud.sbn, Romania_jud.sbx, Romania_jud.shp, Romania_jud.shx *shapefiles with boundaries of Romanian counties (NUTS 3)
*metadata * metadata file  



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	Information for replication
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To replicate the results of the article run the syntax 'do file electoral returns.do' 
To run the replication syntax the following ado-files must be installed if not already in place: estout, ebalance, drdid
To replicate the three cartograms (Figures 1, A1.1 and A1.2) use ArcGIS 10.2 and follow the instructions in the 'map replication instructions.pdf'
